Zmajevo

Zmajevo Змајево (Serbian) Ókér (Hungarian)
Village (Selo)
The Orthodox church.
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Coordinates: 45°27′N 19°41′E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
Region	Bačka (Podunavlje)
District	South Bačka
Municipality	Vrbas
Population  (2002)
• Total	4,361
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Zmajevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Змајево; Hungarian: Ókér) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vrbas municipality, in the South Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 4,361 people (2002 census). It has lakes that are full of carp (Zmajevacka jezera) and a large hunting ground with many wild animals. Anglers from all over Serbia come to Zmajevo to fish the carp in Vojvodina.

Name

In Serbian, the village is known as Zmajevo (Змајево), in German as Alt-Keer or Altker, and in Hungarian as Ókér (Kér was the name of one of the Hungarian tribes that occupied this territory). Older Serbian names (that were given to the village only after the end of the First World War) were: Pašićevo (Пашићево), Stari Ker (Стари Кер), Ker (Кер), and Bačka Dobra (Бачка Добра). The current name, Zmajevo, derived from nickname of Serbian poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj.

History

It was recorded first in 1267. During Ottoman rule (16th-17th century), the village of Kér was populated by Serbs. Germans settled in the village in 1787, but after World War II, as a consequence of the war events, the German population (approximately 2,500 people) was exiled from the village by the communist government. The German Evangelical church was torn down and the German cemetery turned into a pheasant-farm.

Ethnic groups (2002 census)

• Serbs = 3,177 (72.85%)
• Montenegrins = 435 (9.98%)
• Hungarians = 306 (7.02%)
• others.

Historical population

• 1961: 5,212
• 1971: 4,859
• 1981: 4,773
• 1991: 4,548
• 2002: 4,361

See also

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References

• Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

External links

• Zmajevo (ADF/USAID)

Gallery

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  Saint Michael the Archangel Catholic Church.
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  Pharmacy in the village.